9/2/2015

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's tenuous grip on power has again put climate-change policy at the centre of the nation's political leadership struggle, raising concerns among miners and hopes for renewable energy ...

27/1/2015

The collapse of legislation to reduce US greenhouse-gas emissions was one of the most significant failures of President Barack Obama’s first term in office. Halfway through his second, in the face of an entrenched Republican majority on Capitol ...

25/1/2015

When it comes to energy and climate politics, things are heating up on the Senate floor.
Debate over amendments to the Senate bill approving the Keystone XL pipeline forced Republicans to put their views on climate change on the record ...

6/1/2015

The caricatures of the swaggering, independent Texan and the elitist, trend-setting Californian are on full display in the otherwise dry, technical comments the two major economic drivers submitted on U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan.The ...

5/1/2015

Last year, it often seemed like we were fighting attacks on the environment from all sides. But those of us pushing back against pollution and climate change enjoyed some significant victories in 2014, including the People’s Climate March in New ...

12/11/2014

In what may prove to be a watershed moment in the fight against climate change, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced from Beijing on Wednesday that they are pursuing ambitious new greenhouse gas emission ...

5/11/2014

Voters gave Republicans control of the Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections with a majority of 52 seats to the Democrats’ 48. The GOP also maintained control of the House of Representatives, making Congress entirely Republican.For the ...

5/11/2014

Despite millions spent to make climate change a wedge issue during the midterms, environmentally friendly candidates didn’t fare well on Election Day.Green groups funneled an unprecedented amount of money into top Senate races that ...

1/11/2014

Two years after Hurricane Sandy, the vast majority of homeowners who have sought help have not received it. New Jersey has done better than New York City, but lagged behind New York State.
The Christie administration has been inexcusably ...

27/9/2014

The province's 190 local governments and 26 districts are calling for more government oversight over thermal coal exports in British Columbia, which are set to increase after a recent federal decision.
Delegates at the Union of B.C. ...

19/8/2014

Australia is frightening developers away from renewable energy even before the government decides whether to overhaul targets for the industry’s growth.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s decision to take advice on renewable energy targets ...

7/7/2014

Landmark new policies that have sharply curtailed U.S. financing for international coal projects may be rolled back, the result of a sudden, polarised fight over a little-known government agency here.
The debate revolves around an entity ...

28/6/2014

The U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency may use the Clean Air Act to regulate major sources of greenhouse gases, such as factories and power plants. The agency wants to cut carbon emissions by 30 percent ...

17/6/2014

President Obama delivered the commencement address at UC Irvine over the weekend and was rather unrestrained in his mockery of those “who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence.” “They say, ‘Hey, look, I’m not a ...

13/6/2014

The famous adage that nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes should probably be amended. At least insofar as politics and policy are concerned, there is a third inevitability: lawsuits.
Before they even know the details of ...

8/6/2014

President Obama and his harshest critics — business groups and Republicans — have a shared interest in exaggerating the impact of the president’s proposal on climate change. By 2030, the proposal would reduce the electricity sector’s ...

8/6/2014

President Barack Obama’s proposed restrictions to reduce greenhouse gases continue a 40-year federal effort to clean the air, but he might have seriously damaged Democratic chances of holding the Senate in the November elections.Although ...

7/6/2014

White House counselor John Podesta is "fairly confident' that proposed EPA greenhouse gas restrictions can survive scrutiny under the next president -- and that Democrats can campaign on the climate change issue in races this ...

3/6/2014

Louisiana congressional members Monday quickly condemned the Obama administrations bold plan to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants by 30 percent in 16 years.
But others in Congress said the plan, by targeting coal-fired ...

2/6/2014

The Obama administration's plan to restrict emissions from coal-burning power plants in the United States is expected to intensify an environmental battle that is already under way over coal-port expansion in British Columbia.
"I think ...

2/6/2014

In a sweeping initiative to curb pollutants blamed for global warming, the Obama administration unveiled a plan Monday aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third by 2030. But it delays the deadline for some ...

1/6/2014

THE Obama administration today plans to make public the first rules limiting carbon emissions from the thousands of power plants.
The pollution controls form the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's campaign to combat climate change ...

30/5/2014

Americans as a whole support putting strict regulations on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from existing coal-fired power plants in order to fight global warming and improve public health, a Yale University poll released Thursday ...

16/5/2014

The EPA will launch the most dramatic anti-pollution regulation in a generation early next month, a sweeping crackdown on carbon that offers President Barack Obama his last real shot at a legacy on climate change -- while causing significant ...

16/4/2014

Recently, the US State Department released yet another report on the environmental impacts of building the Keystone pipeline. The report is shocking in its ironic juxtaposition of real greenhouse gas emissions and the potential impact on the ...